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What Happens Post-Rapture?
Vaughan Bell at Slate runs down some history on what happens to doomsday cults and the like when their prophecies about the end of the world don’t come true. It’s an interesting piece because Bell does a good job of…
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Science Saturday
GM is upping its production of Volts because of increased demand. Remember when bailing out GM was going to be a disaster? What will the end of the Space Shuttle mean for scientific experimentation in space? Remember when Gov. Bobby…
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Saturday Morning LInks
So Rapture Day is here. Is anyone missing? I’d make fun of these people, but I can’t top what they’ve done to themselves. Daniel Nester asks what unions have ever done for us. The Mothership has a new home–the Smithsonian’s…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
As it turns out, the most important question (evolution-wise) may be “what’s that smell?” I really like these Winnipeg skating shelters. I’ve been worried about this sort of thing for a while; digital masters are disappearing. Looking at Chayefsky’s Network…
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Like a Molotov Cocktail… But Funny
Three of our favorite comedians, W. Kamau Bell, Nato Green, and Janine Brito, are unleashing a guerrilla stand-up comedy tour on America: Laughter Against The Machine. Click the link to learn more, and check out their sweet promotional video after…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It is safe to assume that today will be another day. Today in: things you can do with abandoned factories. Robot libraries of the future! Cool it chimps! Dutch detective covers.
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“Cold Summer Nights”
The Rumpus Proudly Presents: “Cold Summer Nights” Click Here to Purchase Tickets! June 13th, 7pm, The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco. Featuring authors Matt Werner, Tayari Jones, Camille Dungy, and Tamim Ansary! Plus music and a reading by…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The internet was invented so I could go through the NYPL’s gallery of scientific and medical pictures. Istanbul’s urban sprawl makes for a good picture of the day. Yesterday was the 150th anniversary of color photography. New Scientist gets you…
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Today’s Fake Interview
We just published an interview with artist, Edie Fake, who was semi-nomadic but is currently Chicago-based. He talks about touring the country on a bus, illustrating thought-projecting nose cones and conflating comic books and animated film styles to create a…
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Revolutionary Wikipedia
All of us Wikipedia users are constantly reaping the benefits of massive information-based collaboration. This essay, published in the Awl, considers why this resource is so essential in our digital age. Anybody who has ever accidently cited Wikipedia on a…
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The SF Dweller
Broke-Ass Stuart’s site-specific musings on the San Francisco living experience are illustrated by our very own comic master, Wendy MacNaughton in the Bold Italic. He breaks down the major SF living points and she makes them into aesthetically pleasing diagrams,…